Quote by Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know…

— Blaise Pascal

“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and…

— Blaise Pascal

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.…

— Blaise Pascal

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“Greatness comes from understanding that which cannot be taught.”

— JP West

Great is the LORD and Greatly to be praised and His Greatness is unsearchable

— Salomon

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

“From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great man cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of…

— Booker T. Washington

“Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of…

— Blaise Pascal